...AMERICAN ADVERTISING & AMERICAN YOUTH Paige Williams Bachelor of Science in Psychology: Addiction and Recovery: APA Liberty University Abstract American advertising and the influence it has on today’s American youth is oppressing. In this essay I will be pointing out my views and opinion on this matter. In particular I will focus on alcohol ads and the pull it has on our youth. I will also point out how the alcohol ads portray itself to the young community and other audiences as well. The attitudes and behavior of today’s youth seem to be affected by what the world of advertisement is telling them is ok. The American youth is not yet very experienced; I feel the advertising world recognizes this and has a lot to gain from it. I will then go into the attitudes and behaviors of American youth and how advertisement affects them. I will discuss some research and facts from, “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,” on the long term effects of alcohol use, as well as other research facts. (CDC, 2015) Buzzle.com. (2015). [Advertisement].Retrieved from http://www.Buzzle.com AMERICAN ADVERTISING & AMERICAN YOUTH American advertising has a tremendous pull on our youth today. It seems as though every time we turn around we are being exposed to some kind of advertisement. In this essay I will be focusing on alcohol ads and how they are portrayed to our youth today. It is in my opinion that alcohol ads make drinking look fun and harmless. In all reality, the alcohol...
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...Professional Moral Compass Ethics, a branch of philosophy refers to the values for human conduct, considering the rightness and wrongness of actions and motives. As nursing profession is an integral part of the health care environment, the nursing ethics provides the insight to the values and ethical principles governing nursing practice, conduct, and relationships. The Code of Ethics for Nurses, adopted by the American Nurses' Association (ANA) is intended to provide definite standards of practice and conduct that are essential to the ethical discharge of the nurse's responsibility (American Nurses Association, 2012). A nurse cultivates personal ethics through personal, cultural and spiritual values which becomes a moral compass for their professional ethics. Personal ethics in combination with the code of ethics often assist the nurses in personal and social decision making during ethical dilemma. This ability prompts them to better respond to needs of the suffering patient and their own well-being. This paper will discuss the personal, cultural, and spiritual values contributing to nurses’ individual worldview and philosophy of nursing and the moral and ethical dilemma being faced in this profession. Values Contributing to Individual’s Worldview and Philosophy of Nursing Born in a Christian middle class South Indian family, the strict traditional values helped to embed the concept of service, trust, respect, integrity and responsibility through family, friends, education...
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...American Well: The Doctor Will E-See You Now Background American Well is the brain child of Ido and Roy Schoenberg. Brothers, cofounders, and physicians they founded this online company in an attempt to improve access and change the delivery of healthcare. By having physicians available online, it changes the interaction between patient and provider. In today’s healthcare model, the patient is subject to the provider’s schedule and may have to wait days, weeks, or even months to obtain an appointment. American Well’s vision of the healthcare delivery model is to use the internet to connect the patient and the provider together within minutes. American Well was developed at a time when the demand for computer-based tools to collect, manage, communicate healthcare information and transactions was high. For American Well, this turned out be perfect timing. Physician adoption to new technology and payors willingness to reimburse for electronic communication paved the way for American Well to build their platform and move forward with a different model of healthcare delivery. Key Issues * HIPAA – IT Platform of American Well must be HIPAA Compliant * AMA assigned descriptive phrases and numeric codes to electronic, online communication between patient and providers. * Payors do not reimburse without a code. * However, most insurers still do not cover online services due to concerns over privacy, security, and patient demand. * American Well’s value...
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...Code of Ethics The American Public Health Association (APHA) is one of the oldest and diverse organizations of public health. This association has been working to improve public health since 1872. The association aspires to protect all Americans and the community from unnecessary, serious health threats and attempts to assure community-based health promotion and disease prevention actions and preventive health services are universally accessible in the United States. APHA covers an expansive assortment of health professionals. What is public health? According to the APHA public health is prevention. It is the practice of preventing disease and promoting good health within groups of people, from small communities. Understanding what the public health is helps you better understand the mission, values and ethics of this association. The APHA is committed to protecting the health of everyone. It promotes health practices, enforces health policies, and strives to enhance the health of the nation and the world. The APHA carries the goals of educating the public about improving the quality of life by leading a healthy lifestyle and ensuring that the children of the world are growing up in a healthy environment and takes an active role in the prevention of disease (American public health association, 2002). The APHA encourages these beliefs and values by providing vaccination programs for children and adults to help prevent the spread of disease; they help to regulate prescription...
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...culturally sensitive care to a nurses patient’s he or she must first assess their own beliefs, values, and culture at large. The nurse can do this by using the Heritage Assessment Tool. This tool shows the nurse how important their heritage is to them and if they have adopted their ways of life from their family’s history and influence. This gives the nurse a starting point for his or her own competency because once the nurse knows their own beliefs they will know what to keep in mind as their own biases that may hinder or limit care of their patients. The Heritage Assessment tool can then be used with the nurses’ patients in assessing how much they follow their cultural heritage. When interviewing families from different cultures one can see the disparities between them and their perception of their health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration. Applying the Heritage Assessment in Evaluating the Needs of the Whole Person The Heritage Assessment is a useful tool in evaluating the needs of the patient and in being able to provide holistic patient care. The Heritage Assessment Tool assesses whether the individual follows their cultural heritage or not. This is important to the nurse’s evaluation because it gives insight to how the nurse needs to assist their patient. The Heritage Assessment is particularly useful because there are many people in today’s society that do not follow the stereotypical aspects of their cultures and in many instances marry other people...
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...culture or ethnic group has traditions and ways of belief that affect their decisions on how they treat illness, disease and health. Cultural values shape human behaviors and determine what individuals will do to maintain their health status, how they will care for themselves, and others who become ill, and where and from whom they will seek health care (Edelman & Mandle, 2009, p. 34) Health professionals need to be cultural competent, understanding and appreciating one’s beliefs to “work and function effectively with people having different values, beliefs, and ideas about nursing, health, caring, wellness, illness, death, and disabilities (Edelman & Mandle, 2009).” For this paper, three families of different cultures and or ethnic groups where interviewed using the Heritage Assessment Tool. This paper will highlight areas of the Arab American, Panamanian American and Asian American regarding how maintaining their health, protecting their health and restoring their health is influenced by cultural values. The Heritage Assessment Tool is comprised of 29 questions that gives an individual, such as a health care professional, the ability to see the person as a whole when caring for them and being able to see the culture values, beliefs, and traditions one holds in regards to their health. It helps the health professional develop a care plan that will incorporate the patients beliefs and traditions in their ethnic group and or religion. A...
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...discussion + 2.5/3 assignment = 4.5/5 THE UNOBTAINABLE ENTITY: WHY MOST AMERICANS STILL DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO HEALTH INSURANCE Tammy Koo Saint Joseph’s University Abstract This paper delves into three aspects of the past 300 years that helped define the American health care system of the present. Two articles are taken from two textbooks and the other article found online these articles help support the concept that our past behaviors had a direct hand at why health care is so costly and unobtainable to those who absolutely need it. What all texts seem to have in common is the facts that high cost of medical care will prevent the proper care of individuals; technology will continue to advance, medical professionals will continue to treat the ill and the fear of the government involvement will always be present in the minds of a few Americans. THE UNOBTAINABLE ENTITY: WHY MOST AMERICANS STILL DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO HEALTH INSURANCE There are various aspects and characteristics of American healthcare from the 18th and 19th century that have had a major impact shaping today's US healthcare system. Unlike the rest of the world the United States of America has vehemently and historically rejected universal health insurance. Because of this, our health care has been run in part privately and with minimal assistance from the government. The issue with this can be seen with those who cannot afford health insurance nor qualify for government aided insurance. The preindustrial...
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...Health traditions between cultures vary according to the heritage a family is part of. The Heritage Assessment Tool helps evaluate the family whom is interviewed in order to develop a plan for health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration. Each culture offers a different set of traditions and beliefs that contribute to the health care practices they participate in and how the traditions of that heritage are incorporated into the health practices present in the United States. The three families that were interviewed using the Heritage Assessment Tool were families from Native American Indian ancestry, Mexican ancestry, and Portuguese ancestry. All three families were born and raised in the United States, but their ancestors were from other countries, except the Native American family. Although these families were born and raised in the United States, they still carried on some of the traditions from their ancestors. There are many similarities within the three cultures above. All three cultures are family oriented, family is considered to be very important and family gatherings to celebrate holidays and rituals are huge gatherings that involve all the relatives old and young. It is common for these cultures to have large families; it is not unusual to have more than just the immediate family living in the home. In Mexican, Portuguese, and American Indian households, other family members also live in the same household. All three cultures also have many differences...
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...American Well To make health care coverage more affordable, the country must address the soaring cost of medical care that continues to increase at a dangerous rate. A greater focus is needed on the main drivers of medical cost growth: soaring prices for medical services, new costly prescription drugs and medical technologies, unhealthy lifestyles, and an outdated fee-for-service system. More than one-sixth of the U.S. economy is devoted to health care spending and that percentage continues to rise every year. Regrettably, our system is not delivering value commensurate with, for example an estimated $2.5 trillion in 2009 spend on health care.1 These costs punish us on multiple fronts. For American families, the soaring cost of medical care means less money in their pockets and forces hard choices about balancing food, rent, and needed care. For all businesses, employers alike, it makes it more expensive to add new employees, more difficult to maintain retiree coverage, and harder to compete in the global economy. For federal, state, and local governments, rising health care costs lead to higher Medicare and Medicaid costs, and funding cuts for other priorities, such as infrastructure, education and public safety. Thus, the net results of rising health care costs are far-reaching: higher costs for health insurance, the fraying of the nation’s safety net, an erosion in our global competitiveness, nauseating political positioning and long-term fiscal insolvency. While the health...
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...alone, was not very useful in assessing health practices and needs. However, it was helpful in identifying similarities in generations. The tool asks very basic questions but it does not gain specific information about what people do, how they deal with sickness, how they live their lives, and whether or not they base their personal practices on their family history. If health providers are only using this tool to develop specific information about health practices, they will not find it useful without additional cultural information. It is very important for health care providers to be aware and knowledgeable of the various heritage practices and be able to work with these families to identify and address specific health concerns. Some of the information gained through a heritage assessment tool teaches us that some families pass along traditions through their familial line more than others. This only means that some families value traditional practices, while others may modify the traditional practices to make it unique to their own family. Creating a more detailed heritage assessment on families, in addition to using the tool, is very important to gain vital information about how different people maintain, promote, and improve their health. Todd McKee stated, “Efforts to eliminate health disparities arising from cultural differences should focus on building patient-clinician trust relationships, understanding the cultural contexts of health behaviors and improving one’s sensitivity...
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...of two case studies will be examined to explain the dilemmas faced in health care today. The first case study concerns a nurse’s observance of negligence and a malpractice suit. The second is regarding the difficult decision of a family regarding medical decisions. ANA Code of Nursing Ethics The American Nurses Association Code of Ethics can influence the outcome of Marianne’s situation by taking into account of, “Respect for human dignity and the rights of the patient as an individual must be observed” (American Nurses Association, 2001). An ideal case would have “The nurse’s legal and moral obligation is to uphold primacy of the patient's interests” (American Nurses Association, 2001). Unfortunately, Marianne had neither an advanced directive and her family had conflicting wishes despite the poor prognosis. The patient’s prognosis and quality of life need to be discussed with the family. Then a decision can be made accounting for the patient’s best interest. If this should be unsuccessful, the nurse should involve the ethics committee. That way the wishes of the patient and possible outcomes can facilitate discussions on which course of action should be taken. Nurses should always champion their patient’s best interest, when they cannot stand up for themselves. The ANA would define standard of care “by the care delivered is consistent with the highest quality of care available in the community” (American Nurses Association, 2001). By following the ANA’s standard of care that...
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...Improving Quality and Value in the U.S. Health Care System By: Niall Brennan, Nicole Cafarella, S. Lawrence Kocot, Aaron McKethan, Marisa Morrison, Nadia Nguyen, Mark Shepard and Reginald D. Williams II Share on email Share on twitter Share on facebook Share on linkedin More... Share on google_plusone_share Share on stumbleupon Share on reddit Share on print Executive Summary The U.S. health care system faces significant challenges that clearly indicate the urgent need for reform. Attention has rightly focused on the approximately 46 million Americans who are uninsured, and on the many insured Americans who face rapid increases in premiums and out-of-pocket costs. As Congress and the Obama administration consider ways to invest new funds to reduce the number of Americans without insurance coverage, we must simultaneously address shortfalls in the quality and efficiency of care that lead to higher costs and to poor health outcomes. To do otherwise casts doubt on the feasibility and sustainability of coverage expansions and also ensures that our current health care system will continue to have large gaps — even for those with access to insurance coverage. There is broad evidence that Americans often do not get the care they need even though the United States spends more money per person on health care than any other nation in the world. Preventive care is underutilized, resulting in higher spending on complex, advanced diseases. Patients with chronic diseases such as hypertension...
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...beliefs, values and rituals to ensure competent and safe patient care (Edelman & Greiner, 2010). The heritage assessment is useful because it is an important step in building cultural competency through interviewing the patient and determining the things the patient value and respect most in life (Sankaran, 2007). Heritage assessments give patients an opportunity to express their beliefs, values and rituals. Respect is shown to the patient by respecting their beliefs and rituals as closely as possible without hindering patient care. This paper will discuss the benefits of using a heritage assessment in evaluating the needs of the whole patient, interviews of people from different cultures, identify common health traditions of the three cultures and evaluate how families subscribe to these traditions and practices. Cultural competency involves more than just asking questions, but it opens up the diversity of the patient’s culture. Nurses must become aware of their own cultural biases and focus on the cultural beliefs and values of the patient by performing a heritage assessment (Edelman & Greiner, 2010). This heritage assessment will give the nurse a clearer picture of the patient’s background and in the process will improve the quality of care and patient outcome (Schimdt & Owens, 2012). I had an opportunity to perform a heritage assessment on three people from three different cultures. The three cultures that I performed a heritage assessment included: an African American, an Asian...
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...Culturally Competent Care for Mexican-Americans Terry A. Stevens Grand Canyon University: NUR 502- Theoretical Foundations for Nursing Roles and Practice January 13, 2016 Culturally Competent Care for Mexican-Americans For centuries nursing has been a dynamic, this is constantly evolving and adapting in response to a wide range of stimuli. A recent circumstance that has influenced nursing considerably is the consumer mandate for culturally competent care in an increasingly diverse, multicultural society. Although Euro-American culture has reign superior in the United States, the nation has shifted to a conviction where various ethnic, racial, and religious groups thrive in a single society. As a result, the importance of culturally competent care and understanding cultural differences is crucial for the nursing profession. This manuscript focuses on the Mexican-American culture. This particular culture was selected because Mexican-Americans represent the largest and fastest-growing minority population in the United States (Eggenberger, S.K., Grassley, J. & Restrepo E., 2006). Furthermore, Spanish is the second most commonly spoken language in the United States. The prevalence of the Mexican-American population suggests the need for nurses to become more accustomed with Mexican-American culture and values. The purpose of this document is to promote nurses’ awareness of culturally constructed concepts of the Mexican-American culture in order to provide culturally competent...
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...437V January 8, 2012 Professional Moral Compass Ethics, a branch of philosophy refers to the values for human conduct, considering the rightness and wrongness of actions and motives. As nursing profession is an integral part of the health care environment, the nursing ethics provides the insight to the values and ethical principles governing nursing practice, conduct, and relationships. The Code of Ethics for Nurses, adopted by the American Nurses' Association (ANA) is intended to provide definite standards of practice and conduct that are essential to the ethical discharge of the nurse's responsibility (American Nurses Association, 2012). A nurse cultivates personal ethics through personal, cultural and spiritual values which becomes a moral compass for their professional ethics. Personal ethics in combination with the code of ethics often assist the nurses in personal and social decision making during ethical dilemma. This ability prompts them to better respond to needs of the suffering patient and their own well-being. This paper will discuss the personal, cultural, and spiritual values contributing to nurses’ individual worldview and philosophy of nursing and the moral and ethical dilemma being faced in this profession. Values Contributing to Individual’s Worldview and Philosophy of Nursing Born in a Christian middle class South Indian family, the strict traditional values helped to embed the concept of service, trust, respect, integrity and responsibility through family...
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